Broom attachment.



iUrvTTn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY B. I-IUGHEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BROOIVI ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 693,710, datedFebruary 18, 1902.

Application filed June 19, 1901. Serial No. 65,163. (No model.) l

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY B. HUGHEN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in BroomAttachments, of which the following is a speciiication.

The main object of my invention is to provide a simple device forsecuring a cloth over the brush part ofa broom. I accomplish this objectby the device shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l isa perspective view of a device constructed according to my invention.Fig. 2 is a side view of a broom, showing the device attached andillustrating the manner in which the cloth is secured.

In the form shown my invention is constructed as follows: A ring or wire1 of a diameter slightly larger than the diameter Aof the part of thebroom where it is secured to the handle has secured thereto at oppositesides the forked members 2 and 3. These members are preferably securedto the ring by means of hinge-pieces 1, so that their ends may be freelymoved toward or away from each other. The members 2and 3 are slightlyoffset at 5, the point at which the hingepieces 4 are attached, toprevent said hingepieces from slipping along said members. The member 2has its ends bent to form hooks 6 and the ends of the member 3 are bentto form the eyes 7. Each of the members 2 and 3 has its arms connectednear/their ends by a cross-bar S, which is preferably made of sheetmetal bentto a channel-section and having on its projecting anges theteeth 9. The cross-bars 8 are applied to the members 2 and 3 in suchmanner that the teeth will project inwardly or toward the broom when thedevice is applied, as shown in Fig. 2. A piece of open-link chain l0 issecured to each of the eyes 7 and is of such size that the hooks 6 maybe inserted into the links, as shown in Fig. l. A section of thecoil-spring 11 is inserted between two of the links of each of thechains l0, said springs and chains together forming an extensibleresilient tie between the eye 7 and the hooks 6.

The operation of my device is as follows:

The ring l is passed over the handle of the broom and over the part 12until stopped by the shoulder 13, the members 2 and 3 being disposed onopposite faces of the broom. A cloth 14: is wrapped around the end ofthe broom, its ends being gathered and drawn under the toothed bars 8.The chains lO are now secured to the hooks 6, causing the crossbars 8 tobe drawn toward each other and sccurely clamping the cloth in position.

It will be seen that numerous details of the device shown may be alteredwithout departing from the spirit of my invention. I therefore do notconfine myself to such details except as hereinafter limited in theclaims.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A broom attachment comprising a pair.

of clamp members hinged together, means for attaching said members toopposite sides of a broom, a hook secured to one of said members, and achain secured to the other mem ber adapted to engage said hook andthereby control the relative distance between said members.

2. A broom attachment comprising a ring, a pair of forked members hingedat opposite points of said ring, each of said members having a toothedbar connecting its arms near their extremities, a loop or eye at the endof each of the arms of one of said members, a hook at the end of each ofthe arms of the other member, and a chain secured to each of said eyesand having links of a size suitable to receive said hooks.

3. A broom attachment comprising a ring, a pair of forked members hingedat opposite points of said ring, each of said members having a toothedbar connecting its arms near their extremities, a loop or eye at the endof each of the arms of one of said members, a hook at the end of each ofthe arms of the other member, and a chain secured to each of said eyesand having links of a size suitable to receive said hooks, each of saidchains having a spring connecting two of its links.

4t. A broom attachment comprising a ring, a pair of clamp members hingedat opposite points of said. ring, each of said members having a toothedbar at its end, and an extensible tie connecting each of the extremitiesof one of said bars with the oorrespondingextremity of the other bar.

5. A broom attachment comprising a pair of clamp members hinged togetherat their upper ends, means at said upper ends for attaching said membersto opposite sides of a, broom, each of said members having at its lowerend a toothed bar, and an extensible tie connecting each of theextremities of one of said bars with the corresponding extrem- 1o ity ofthe other bar.

Signed at Chicago this 17th day of June,

MARY B. l-IUGHEN.

Vitnesses:

WM. R. RUMMLER, EUGENE A. RUMMLER.

